邻 lín neighbor; adjacent; close to

Made up of [⻏ fù place radical 163, 令 lìng to order; to command; an order ]

Note

The 'place' radical suggests a location, 'ling' provides a rough phonetic
Number of strokes: 7

Related characters

Also uses ⻏ fù component: 都 dōu (all) 郊 jiāo (suburbs) 那 nà (that)
Also uses 令 lìng component: 冷 lěng (cold) 怜 lián (to pity) 领 lǐng (neck) 龄 líng (age) 零 líng (zero)

Sounds same

林 lín (forest) 临 lín

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Pronunciation

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Tue 14^th May

Chinese 19th century slave labor

Many people think that slavery was abolished in the 1820s. While it is true that the African slave trade dwindled rapidly the plantation owners turned to new sources of slaves. These were the 'coolies' from India and China that were normally tricked into signing a contract and were treated just as appallingly as the African slaves they replaced. Mercifully the Chinese coolie trade came to an end in the late 1870s after the intervention of the Chinese government. The tale of these lost million people is rarely told, particularly the Chinese laborers. We have added a page summarizing this ignoble trade and also the treatment of the many Chinese immigrants to California in the late 19th century when racial discrimination reached fever pitch.